102 APHRODITACEiE. 



Eruca sive Scolopendra marina, Seba, Thesaur. i. 141. tab. 90. f. 1-3; 



iii. 9. tab. 4. f. 7, 8. 

 Vermis aureus, Oligerus Jacohceus in Acta Hafnice, iii. 8 & 88, 



cum fig. 

 Mus marinus, hinn. Syst. edit. 1756, 79. 

 Aphrodita nitens, Linn. Faun. Suec. 367. no. 1284; Mus. Adolph. 



Fred. 93. 

 Aphrodita elliptica versicolor, and the Sea-Mouse, Hill, Hist. Anim. 



iii. 90, but not the fig, on pi. 5. 

 Aphrodita subrotunda. Hill in lib. cit. 91. 

 Aphrodita aculeata, Linn. Syst. x. 655 ; xii. 1084 ; Faun. Suec. 2nd 



edit. 509. Pallas, Misc. Zool. 77. tab. 7- f. 1-13. Bast. Opusc. 



Subs. ii. 62. pi. 6. f. 1-4. Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 44. pi. 23. f. 25, and 



edit. 1812, iv. 86. tab. 25. f. 1. Mull. Zool. Dan. Prod. 218. 



no. 2641. Turt. Gmel. iv. 79; Brit. Faun. 136. Stew. Elem. i. 



387. Home, Comp. Anat. pi. 39. f, 1, 2. Blumenb. Elem. Nat. 



Hist. 245. Jameson in Wern. Mem. i. 657. Bosc, Vers, i. 181. 



Cuv. Begn. Anim. iii. 206. Aud. ^ M.-Edw. in Ann. des Sc. nat. 



xxvii. 402. pi. 8. f. 7; Hist. nat. Litt. de la France, ii. 6Q. pi. 1 a. 



f. 7- Edin. Journ. Nat. ^- Geogr. Sc. iii. 51. Roget, Bridgew. 



Treat, ii. 102 & 298. Johnston in Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. 429. pi. 21, 



and V. 305. Templeton in Loud. Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. 234. Blainv. 



Diet, des Sc. nat. Ivii. 456, Atlas, pi. fig. 1. Fleming in Encyclop. 



Brit. edit. 7- xi. 221. Guerin, Icon, des Regn. Anim. pi. 9. f. 1. 



Williams, Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1851, 172, 217, 237, and in Ann. ^ 



Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. xii. 348. pi. 13. f. 5. Dalyell, Pow. Great. 



ii. 170, pi. 24. f. 15, 16. Oersted, Consp. Annul. Dan. 11. Grube, 



Fam. Annel. 35. 

 Aphrodite herissee, Brug. Encyclop. Meth. vi. 85. 

 Halithea aculeata, Savigny, Syst. Annel. 19. Lam. Anim. s. Vert. v. 



307, and 2nd edit. v. 542. Risso, VEurop. Merid. iv. 412. Stark, 



Elem. ii. 140. Edin. Journ. Nat. ^ Geogr. Sc. iii. 246. 

 The Sea Scolopendra, Adams, Paul. JSgin. ii. 174; iii. 344. 

 The Sea Mouse, Prov. 



Hab. The coralline region, common on the British coasts. 



Desc. Body from 3 to 5 or even 8 inches long, oval, narrowest 

 behind, convex dorsally, the back of an earthy colour, roughish, with 

 a thick close felt of hair and membrane, forming a sort of skin which 

 entirely conceals the scales ; the sides clothed with long silky green 

 and golden hairs clustered in fascicles, and glistening like burnished 

 metal, with blackish-brown spiniform bristles intermixed: ventral 

 surface flat, often light-coloured and dotted, sometimes dark brown, 

 obsoletely ribbed across. Head small, entirely concealed, roundish, 

 with two round clear spots or eyes on the vertex : antenna minute : 

 palpi large, subulate, flesh-coloured or dusky, jointed at the base, 

 where they approximate, but are separated by a black membranous 

 crest : mouth with a large edentulous proboscis ; the orifice encircled 

 with a short, even, thick-set fringe of compound penicillate filaments 

 ivided into two sets by a fissure on each side ; each filament has a 

 short stalk with a tuft of numerous forked papillae on its summit ; 

 exterior to the orifice of the proboscis there are four fleshy tubercles 

 placed at the angles. Scales fifteen pairs, roundish, smooth, thin 

 and vesicular, blotched with black stains and specks, the first pair 



